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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
The devastating effect of Alzheimer’s disease on bilingual people has been thrown into focus in Canada, where the sudden loss of a second language can leave sufferers feeling like strangers in their own country. Despite increasing evidence that bilingualism can actually delay the onset ...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff stepped down Sunday over an expenses scandal that also has forced the resignation of a conservative senator. Nigel Wright announced his resignation following revelations that he gave a $90,000 gift to a senator to help repay improper ...
Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday, is dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity after singing a gone-viral made-in-space music video. By late Wednesday, almost 10 million ...
Louis Giscard d’Estaing, a former two-term deputy representing Puy-de-Dome in the National Assembly, mayor of Chamalieres and son of former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing kicked off his latest campaign Tuesday afternoon — in Bethesda, Maryland. Flanked by two 20-year-old campaign volunteers in European ...
Mitsubishi Corp. and three other companies jointly obtain approval from Canada to export shale gas from western Canada to Japan and other parts of Asia.
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Center said Saturday it will use the 1.5 million Canadian dollars (¥137 million) in its Japan Earthquake Relief Fund to assist the education of young people in the Tohoku region affected by the 2011 disasters. “The future of the region ...
Two days of face-to-face meetings between Canada’s trade minister and his EU counterpart, ending late Thursday, failed to break a deadlock on the last stumbling blocks to reaching a free-trade pact. “Progress was made in several of the areas that remain outstanding. However, further ...
Indigenous Canadians marched on the capital and other major cities Friday and threatened to bring the country’s economy “to its knees” as their leaders met with officials to try to resolve a dispute over extreme poverty on reservations. As many as 500 protested in ...
The polar bear was more than 1 km away and began running toward the dog sled, quickly closing the distance on the frozen Arctic waters of Canada’s Resolute Bay. One of Mark Beeler’s Inuit guides released two dogs to distract it while Beeler, a ...
Canada’s Conservative government will soon stop producing and distributing medical marijuana, leaving it up to the private sector in a policy change that angered critics Monday. Canadian Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq made the announcement Sunday, claiming current regulations “have left the system open to ...
Canada on Friday approved two major takeovers of energy firms by the Chinese state-owned giant CNOOC and Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas — deals estimated to top $20 billion in total. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced regulatory approval for CNOOC’s $15.1 billion takeover of ...